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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823110403321

Autore

Pratt H. Douglas (Harold Douglas), <1944->

Titolo

The Hawaiian honeycreepers : Drepanidinae / / H. Douglas Pratt ; colour plates, drawings, and photographs by the author ; bird photographs by Jack Jeffrey ; with an appendix by Sheila Conant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-02745-5

1-281-34630-6

9786611346300

0-19-152403-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Collana

Bird families of the world ; ; 12

Disciplina

598.8

Soggetti

Drepanididae

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of colour plates; List of abbreviations; Plan of the book, names and terms; Honeycreeper Topography; Frequently mispronounced words of Hawaiian origin; PART I: General chapters; PART II: Species accounts; Appendix 1: Honeycreepers in Hawaiian material culture; Appendix 2: Scientific names and families of plants mentioned in the text; Appendix 3: Scientific names, families, and subfamilies of non-Hawaiian birds mentioned in the text; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Honeycreepers, with their bright colouration and canary-like songs, are famed for their unique evolutionary history as a geographically isolated group that has undergone a spectacular burst of adaptations to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.